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Antarctica is warming, satellites reveal

IT’S official&colon; all of Antarctica is warming. This overturns previous suggestions that only the Antarctic Peninsula is heating up, while the continent’s interior cooled.

The majority of weather stations on Antarctica sit around the coast, with only two providing an unbroken record from the continent’s interior. This has given a misleading picture of climate trends over the continent.

Eric Steig of the University of Washington, Seattle, and colleagues used satellite data and statistical techniques to fill in the gaps left by the sparse network of weather stations. The revised records show that between 1957 and 2006 temperatures rose by around …